Nigeria, Nov. 18 -- Kabiru Turaki, the newly elected national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the party's new leadership is ready to make any sacrifice necessary, including laying down their lives, to defend the PDP and 'protect' Nigeria's democracy.

Mr Turaki, a former minister of special duties, made the declaration on Tuesday while addressing governors, members of the Board of Trustees (BoT), and other stakeholders at the party's inaugural National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held at the PDP national secretariat in Abuja.

"For us in PDP, I have said it and I want to say it emphatically that if it means that we'll lay down our lives for democracy to strive and survive in Nigeria, we are prepared to do that,"...